Thanks a lot for your messages! It seems that the best solution for me would be to set up an own tile server, download the tiles from OSM and then providing them to the users of our app. We have planned to let the app display maps offline, so a permanent data service wouldn't be necessary.<br>
<br>@Toby: Styling our own tiles is a great idea. That way, we could provide the most appropriate map representation for our users. Is there a documentation on tile styling?<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 August 2011 10:20, Peter Körner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osm-lists@mazdermind.de">osm-lists@mazdermind.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Am <a href="tel:24.08.2011%2021" value="+12408201121" target="_blank">24.08.2011 21</a>:01, schrieb Greg Troxel:<div><div>
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<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<u></u>wiki/Tile_usage_policy</a><br>
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I have always found it odd that it seems acceptable for<br>
non-Free/Open_Source software to use tiles from osm servers. Am I<br>
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Using tiles from <a href="http://osm.org" target="_blank">osm.org</a> is acceptable as it obeys the license requirements and does not create too much load on the tile server.<br><font color="#888888">
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Peter<br>
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